u/Smooth-Quantity-7024

I've been eyeing up replacing my current car - the mileage is creeping up, it's getting on a bit, and I'd rather get shut before I start encountering expensive repairs and I can still get a few grand from it - but I keep feeling a sense of guilt like I'm getting rid of a car that hasn't done anything wrong.

Admittedly I'm one of those weird people who feels empathy for inanimate objects, but I'm wondering if anyone else gets this strange feeling when they're changing cars?

Currently torn between a red and blue Honda Civic 11th gen, and after a recent post about someone getting lacquer peel on their red car, it's got me worried.

I had a 2011 red DS3 that never suffered from it in all the time I had it, but my mum had a 2012 Mini Cooper that started getting it on the bumper. I've heard mixed reports on how susceptible Japanese cars are.

Is there any rhyme or reason to red paint lacquer peel on cars, or is it just pot luck?

I've made the argument that the BBC could replace the licence fee with a tax or levy or whatnot on streamers and broadcasters that effectively eat into its audience share, especially international operators like Netflix, Disney, Paramount and WBD that are "killing traditional TV".

The stance is effectively, if you're going to compete with the BBC, you should pay to help support it. Plus it'll stop regular folk moaning about having to pay their licence.

In my opinion, a subscription model wouldn't make up the financial losses, and general taxation would just further push the narrative of being "forced" to pay for a service not everybody wants to use.

It's never been suggested by anyone important and I guess I'm wondering what I'm missing. Would these companies lose so much money that they'd no longer consider the UK viable to operate in?

I'm my experience, 2000 felt very different to 1990, and 2010 felt very different to 2000.

But other than things like AI and streaming and folding phones, it really doesn't feel like much has changed. Fashion seems the same, music feels the same, most cars look the same...

Why did we get to the late 2000s and just kinda stop?

There's a ton of comedians from way back when that are pretty much forgotten about - some deservedly, some less so. But some of them had some solid routines that absolutely hold up nowadays, in my opinion.

I'm not just talking about people's favourite bits. I'm talking about stuff that still works years after they were first done and don't fall victim to the "you couldn't do that nowadays" trope.

My two nominations are Freddie Starr's Vincent routine, and Mick Miller's alcoholic radio host telling a story about Noddy.

Hit me with your picks.

Tyre repair kits feel like they're becoming the standard, but I've heard comments ranging all the way from "they wreck your wheel" to "a garage won't touch the wheel if you use one". And that's assuming it works.

So if spare wheels are becoming less and less common, what are we actually supposed to do if we get a puncture? Is there ever a situation where repair kits are fine to use?